Monday, 7 March 2011

A child of white migrant in her playhouse. The rusted scales represented a clock to the little girl. Near Harlingen, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection)

In time we find three children, two pleasant girls,one dumb boy, enjoying modest picnic mid junkstrewn vacant lot in life's brief eclogue ofpassage through ambient mixed creation.In the photo torn from the old albumthe blank kid in the middle's me, sucking onsome milk, while the two girls -- script versoin some anonymous ancient handidentifies them as Jane and Suellen,grimy cherubic charmers, imperfectlyrecalled, fair, brown-haired, freckled secretsharers of archaic lunch time -- munch hugesandwiches that dwarf the tiny fists whichhungrily clutch them, much as life's to be clutched,as though a whole world were there to be eaten.

A child of white migrant in her playhouse. Near Harlingen, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection)

A child of white migrant. Near Harlingen, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection)

Small girls sitting in doorway of house in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.: photo by Carl Mydans for US Resettlement Administration, September 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection)